Flaneur #5 2015 reading book Ala Younis

Ala Younis

One street

the powerful impressions left thereafter by the raw-looking variations and imposing greatness of béton brut have triggered a new surge of interest

The rise and quick fall of brutalist architecture within the span of two decades (1960s - 1970s) was thought of as the end of it

Flaneur #5 2015 reading book Ala YounisFlaneur #5 is following the oral history of the neighbourhood of Kypseli, the magazine finds itself entangled in a story heavy microcosm. Fokionos Negri, once a river, now a broad and green, two sided boulevard becomes a stage of overlapping narratives where stories are told and re told. As on every stage, the desire for the story is stronger than the need to subdue it to rigid logic. The magazine emerses itself in these fragments until they become